Ever since its establishment, the Institute's main purpose has been to work for the human development of Brazilian children and youth in cooperation with federal, state and city governments, private businesses, and organizations from the civil society.
The Ayrton Senna Institute offers assistance to children and young people through the development of educational programs using a variety of ways to develop human potential. Those programs in turn allow the Institute to design, implement, evaluate, systematize, and transfer social technologies.
The Institute understands social technologies as creative, flexible, and efficient solutions to educational problems of the country, both in the formal education and complementary education fields. Moreover, social technologies must be capable of achieving large-scale impact and making permanent changes in the lives of children and young people.
Through the dissemination and transfer of social technologies to different social players, the Institute overcomes the limits of the provision of direct assistance to children and young people. It implements educational programs at a public policy level as a way to promote human development on a large scale. The institute already assisted more than 6.5 million children and young people, partnered with more than 340 thousand organizations, developed social programs reaching 1,363 cities in 25 Brazilian states and invested R$146 million.
The Institute creates educational opportunities using a variety of ways to develop human potential. In the formal education field, it works to improve the quality of public education by providing literacy programs to children, accelerating student learning, and qualifying school administration. In the after-school programs field, the Institute offers opportunities for children and young people to experience new learning activities through art, communication media, computer technology and sports. Such work promotes social technologies, which consist of new concepts and education.
Contact Information:
Instituto Ayrton Senna: Margareth Goldenberg
Address: Rua Dr. Olavo Egídio, 287 - 16º andar - São Paulo - SP - Brazil
Phone: +55 11 6974-3000
E-mail: ias@ias.org.br
Website:http://senna.globo.com/institutoayrtonsenna/ingles/inst_home.asp?r=t